From: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
To: Christopher Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>,
Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>,
David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>,
Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
"Tobin C . Harding" <me@tobin.cc>, Linux-MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm/slab: Do not hash pointers when debugging slab
Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2017 10:43:09 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAGXu5j+9qWBM3G1ZtBXPi35UGkcfXnSbgZCBjXJM35X9+hS4ug@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1712070512120.7218@nuc-kabylake>
On Thu, Dec 7, 2017 at 3:13 AM, Christopher Lameter <cl@linux.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 7 Dec 2017, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
>
>> If CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB/CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB_LEAK are enabled, the slab code
>> prints extra debug information when e.g. corruption is detected.
>> This includes pointers, which are not very useful when hashed.
>>
>> Fix this by using %px to print unhashed pointers instead.
>
> Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
>
> These SLAB config options are only used for testing so this is ok.
Most systems use SLUB so I can't say how common CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB is.
(Though, FWIW with SLUB, CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG is very common.)
-Kees
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-12-07 18:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-12-07 10:17 [PATCH] mm/slab: Do not hash pointers when debugging slab Geert Uytterhoeven
2017-12-07 11:13 ` Christopher Lameter
2017-12-07 18:43 ` Kees Cook [this message]
2017-12-07 20:15 ` Christopher Lameter
2017-12-10 20:45 ` Linus Torvalds
2017-12-11 8:08 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2017-12-11 12:00 ` Christopher Lameter
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